Indigenous Child Welfare
Canada has a decentralized child welfare system that consists of 13 Canadian provincial and territorial child welfare systems. In addition, there exists Métis, First Nations and urban Indigenous child and family service agencies that are to varying degrees affected by federal policies and funding models.
Most commonly, Indigenous child welfare agencies have signed agreements with either the federal or both the federal and provincial governments that authorizes them to provide the full range of child protection services and receive federal funding to do so.
For more information about First Nations child welfare, see Denouncing the Continued Overrepresentation of First Nations Children in Canadian Child Welfare.
- Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on First Nations Child Welfare
- Jordan's Principal
- Overrepresentation in Context
For information on the First Nations human rights complaint case against the federal government for under-funding child welfare services on-reserve: I am a witness.
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Book chapter
Aboriginal Children: Maintaining Connections in Adoption
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Information Sheet
Newfoundland and Labrador’s child welfare system
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Journal article
Identity lost and found: Lessons from the sixties scoop
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Book chapter
Identity, Community, Resilience: The Transmission of Values Project
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Information Sheet
British Columbia's child welfare system
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Book chapter
The Journey of the Métis Settlements Child and Family Services Authority: Serving Alberta's Métis Settlement Children, Youth, and Families
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Book chapter
A Sacred Family Circle: A Family Group Conferencing Model
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Report
Child and Family Services Statistics December 2008
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Information Sheet
The Yukon’s child welfare system
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Information Sheet
Prince Edward Island’s child welfare system
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